Integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine into Maternity Care: Development and Evaluation of a Delphi-Based Training Course to Enhance Nurses' Competency - A Quasi-Experimental Study.
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Purpose: Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) has significant advantages in regulating the maternal constitution and promoting the healthy development of the fetus with its unique concept of health and fetal protection. However, there is no systematic training course for maternity nurses. Therefore, this study focused on designing a training course for maternity nurses on TCM health preservation during pregnancy and the perinatal period.
Methods: A two-round Delphi process with 18 multidisciplinary experts (clinicians, educators, TCM specialists) was employed to establish consensus on the training course through anonymous iterative feedback. From August 2024 to October 2024, a quasi-experimental design was utilized to conveniently recruit 84 maternity nurses from two hospitals for comparison. Among them, 42 nurses in the observation group received the training curriculum validated through the Delphi method, while 42 nurses in the control group received conventional education. The TCM knowledge, behavioral competence, and clinical competency of nurses in both groups were assessed using a standardized questionnaire before and after the training, to compare the intervention effects.
Results: The recovery rates of the two rounds of consultation were 100% and 88.8%, and the authority coefficients of experts were 0.771 and 0.822, respectively. The TCM health preservation during pregnancy and perinatal period training course for maternity nurses was formed, including 4 first-level indicators, 15 second-level indicators and 77 third-level indicators. The results of empirical research showed that the scores of knowledge, behavior ability and competency level of nurses in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group (P<0.05).
Conclusion: The TCM health preservation during pregnancy and perinatal period training course for maternity nurses is scientific and reliable, which can provide a reference for maternity nurses to learn the knowledge and technology of TCM.
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The Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare (JMDH) aims to represent and publish research in healthcare areas delivered by practitioners of different disciplines. This includes studies and reviews conducted by multidisciplinary teams as well as research which evaluates or reports the results or conduct of such teams or healthcare processes in general. The journal covers a very wide range of areas and we welcome submissions from practitioners at all levels and from all over the world. Good healthcare is not bounded by person, place or time and the journal aims to reflect this. The JMDH is published as an open-access journal to allow this wide range of practical, patient relevant research to be immediately available to practitioners who can access and use it immediately upon publication.
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